paint with white lead
paint with white lead, τὸ πρόσωπον Plu. Alc. 39:—Pass., τὸ πρόσωπον ἐψιμυθιῶσθαι Lys. 1.14, cf. 17, Ath. 12.528f: Achaean ψημυθιόω, abs. in Pass., ψημυθιοῦσθαι Schwyzer 429 (Dyme, post iii B. C.): pf. Pass. ἐψημυθιῶσθαι Phot.
The corpus record
ψιμυθ-ιόω
psimuthioo
paint with white lead
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Where it lives
- Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ψιμυθίου · psimythiou Xenophon, Economics 10.7 (DIORISIS sentence 508)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.